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Penny Arcade Speaks at MIT
An anonymous reader writes "Gabe and Tycho of Penny Arcade recently gave a talk at MIT. One attendee recorded the event and has made available a transcript of the talk, in which the guys talk about the comic and various related topics. The Penny Arcade crew always puts on a good show with their own brand of witty humor and disarming personalities and this is certainly no exception. If you have never seen them talk in person it may lose a little in the translation from speech to text, but still a funny read in any case."
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Sorry, haven't gotten First Post in ages, mod me Offtopic :-)
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...back in September. So in other words, just about forever ago.
Sorry, I didn't realise you wanted an offtopic mod. You get Redundant now....
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Weebl and Peabo lecture at Cambridge University ...
"The dew has clearly fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning"
Deborah hated to be called in from play for no reason at all. Oh c'mon, mom just give me five
more minutes, will ya?? she thought to herself while she rolled her eyes up. "Debbie! Debbie!
Come in, NOW! Do you hear, girl?? DEBORAH JOHNSON!...". Deborah got up and sort of excused
herself from the playground by kicking over little Billy's meek beginnings of a sand castle.
She slowly made her way up the driveway and let her twenty-six year old well shaped body
through the wooden door into the backyard of their home. Debbie was a special girl and she
knew it. Mentally no further progressed than eleven she had been placed with her mom and her
step-father, Donnie. Debbie sighed because she knew, today was the day and she would be forced
to lie down for at least half an hour with her legs raised. She wasn't mistaken. Just as she
entered the backyard she saw Donnie sitting there with his - she was supposed to call it penis -
really stiff. "C'mon girl lie down there, it'll be over quick and then you can go back to play"
Donnie and Mommy couldn't have any children, Debbie was told when they took her to the Judge
in the city. Debbie knew that that man could send people to jail if he didn't like them so when
the Judge asked if she was willing to "carry the child to term" and she knew exactly what was asked of
her she nodded emphatically and said "Yes sir".
Soon enough Donnie was on top of her and his thing was in her and while he was thrusting Debbie
smiled as she looked forward to the ice cream she always got in addition to the fact that she
secretly liked what Donnie did with her because it was so much like what she did to herself
when they weren't looking.
I think that the recent launch of the Penny Arcade book, Penny Arcade Volume 1: Attack of the Bacon Robots! is more the point of the article than the transcript of last September's MIT visit.
The disparity between the characters of the two guys that do it, and their real selves. It's amusing enough to see real pictures of them, one portly baldy manchild and the other a ricket, but then when you see a picture of their girlfriends compared to their drawn characters, THAT'S taking artistic license WAY too far.
COCKTHIRSTY!!!
Associated comic. Happened a long time ago.
It was an engrossing and hilarious read for those of us who were not able to attend the talk. Thank you for putting in the time to write this out!!!!
In short, they suck now. Boring, contrived, self serving. I removed them from my bookmarks.
wait wait, are you saying that a couple of gamers are unattractive and their girlfriends are *not* both skinny with nice tits? that's unpossible!
Well, where are the pictures? :p
Your post is next to worthless without pictures
"Gabe and Tycho of Penny Arcade ***recently*** gave a talk at MIT" What is the definition of recent, how many years, months, days minutes or seconds..Is a talk given in September can be considered recent?
They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me. -Nathaniel Lee
Links to pictures:
"Tycho" (a.k.a. Jerry Holkins)
"Gabe" (a.k.a. Mike Krahulik)
Couldn't find pictures of better halves though.
Phoenix, Boston, Little Rock, see a pattern?
Would some please mod this comment up? It is the most interesting comment in a discussion on a terribly boring subject that's been up for more than an hour and only has 21 comments to show for it! Thank you!
Wow, so Tycho really speaks like that in real life. I figured he sat there writing his post with a thesaurus website opened up in the background!
... and why should I be interested in a couple of fuckwits?
Brenna : http://www.penny-arcade.com/docs/tycam.jpg http://www.penny-arcade.com/wombean.jpg She's cute... most of us geeks should be so lucky.
Now you're just plain scary, mr. Anonymous Coward.
It will forever ruin you penny-arcade experiance.
Hello I am Lakdar. I am from small village Trask in the Uzbek. On certain time many ago the Penny Arcade bishes is having forum and I is posting superness in. Then they moderatings is telling of my thread "It is a locking!" They I is a banned. This making me thinks the penny arcade bishes is a racist against uzbek. We are simply happiness people and have no making angry at anybody except the drunken cossack who is burn our hut, the lying dirty saxon who is steal our goat, and the fat pig amerikan who is bomp village with aeroplain. Please many slashdot people are helping us expressing the unhappy about the racist bishes of the penny arcade. If you are making help for us then perhaps you may have the sex of the womens if you are come to visit Uzbek. I have several daughter is not yet sold to the happiness slavery.
Sometimes it's better not to know.
-- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to
It's one thing to take potshots at satirists who have demonstrated they're always up for a fight and often do assholish (but IMO funny) bits in their comics. It's quite another to take shots at their wives. The fact that the above people who did so posted anonymously shows cowardice, though maybe it shows shame as well which would at least indicate the presence of some kind of conscience. In any case, it's completely uncool.
Last time someone publically insulted their spouses, G&T (or J&M) shut down their forum community. People are afraid of what they will do if they find out /. members are throwing the insultings now.
.. the only one, who doesn't find Penny Arcade funny?
Oddly enough, I frequented that forum back then (assuming you're referring to the same incident a couple [few?] years back) and, in fact, was banned for a short time because I took a shot at Kara and chose my words poorly. The fundamental difference to my mind was that I was actually responding to something she did or said (it's been so long I don't remember the details) and wasn't just trying to be an asshole.
I actually thought about that after I wrote the above post and realized that I probably should have mentioned it "in the interest of full disclosure." It just didn't occur to me right away because I find the two instances to be very different, and, of course, in that long-ago incident I wasn't talking "behind [anyone's] back" - just as now, my name (both handle and real) is right there. Ill admit, though, that my horse is not too very high and my home, though mostly solid, has plenty of glass.
SHITCOCK!
...is saying @#$@#$ all the time "witty humor" ?
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Brenna looks like Mike with a full head of hair and a hanger through his lip. That's gotta be illegal in some states.
Did they follow up each of their witty and funny comments with a long, boring blog entry about why the comment itself was funny?
He was the only thing funny about that shitty comic.
Why is the slashdot taking of my +1 of the posting and is a 0 again? It is because the slashdot are racist against the uzbek? Please no more hurting of and making unhappy. I am nice man!
I'm a college student in Boston who is interested in attending different speakers at different schools. Unfortunately, I never hear about the speakers until it's reported in the Globe. Is there an index or calendar of all the upcoming events at local colleges?
PS: Are most lectures easy to sneak into? At Northeastern University know one checks ID and the doors aren't locked.
Would you?
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Oh, bite me. Who realistically expects comic artists to look like models, rock stars (other than Keith Richards) or Movie Stars. Potshots those were not. And "taking shots at their wives?" Yeesh. Let me go look, I'll bet I can find a stupid picture of your wife, and I KNOW I can find some of me and mine... so posting a picture of Brenna in a wombat suit can't be a terrible crime. ME in such a suit, certainly, but on her, it's just geek cred. +5 Insightful -- no. +5 knee-jerk hypersensitivity.
I'd love to help you out -- which way did you come in?
At least those two aren't forced to looking for cocks to suck, like you.
I AM SUCKING COCKS>>>
HOW CAN THIS BE????
... it doesn't work for comments ... :)
I don't know, but I am laughing at thinking about what Penny-Shitage would do to slashdot....
Post about their love for cocks and shit?
Not sure what the story on their GF's are.
What brought Penny-Arcade back into a fun and encouraging resource, ever since hitting low marks around 2002, was to put a Penny-Arcade glossy sticker in my underwear. The logo is positioned right where my asshole would give grease if ever it were encouraged to let go. I recently contracted the Flu and let me tell You that it saved a lot of money in preventing stains in the underwear. After two days of unrelenting vomit, and what little food that goes through the stomach quickly leaving the bowels in an eruption remeniscent of a Boeing 747 jet engine eating a goose in flight, the Penny-Arcade logo precisely adhesed to cover the largest of ejection area; thereby effectually saving hard-earned geek-cash to buy new underwear, and encourage use of that elusive "laundry" mechanism down the street from my card-board box House.
Thankyou Penny-Arcade and their blessed Fruit Fucker of the Loom logo pirated in mass under the asscracks of viral humanity.